Tristan Bancks

Tristan Bancks was born on the 21^st December 1964; he is an actor and an author from Australia best known for the role he played as a Tug on Home and Away between the year 1992 and the year 1994.

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Tristan Bancks trained at the Sydney’s Q Theatre before getting some regular roles on Home and Away. When he left Home and Away, Tristan Bancks spent the total of 4 years in London writing, researching anf presenting TV for BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Cablehe was the presenter of shows like Don't Try This at Home, Sussed, and The Travel Channel.

He left London back to his country in the year 1999 to appear in Ivan Sen’s short drama called Dust and also Beneath Clouds and Remote Area Nurse. Since he got back to the country, Tristan Bancks has made some short movies as a director and as a writer.

Fr the past few years, Tristan Bancks has been writing full time. He has written the total of 8 short stories in Macmillan's Kids Inc. series about the children starting their own business.

Tristan Bancks has a sister called Kerryn who is a newsreader for the WIN Television in Wollongong. He is married with two sons.

TV

Ø  Remote Area Nurse (2006).... as Grub

Ø  Beneath Clouds (2006).... as Grub

Ø  Dust (2002).... as Dean

Ø  Home and Away (1992–1994).... as Tug O'Neale.

Books

Ø  Mac Slater Coolhunter 1: The Rules of Cool (2008)

Ø  Mac Slater Coolhunter 2: I Heart NY (2009)

Ø  Nitboy: Lift Off (2009)

Ø  Nitboy: Bug Out (2009)

Ø  It's Yr Life (with Tempany Deckert) (2009)

Ø  My Life and Other Stuff I Made Up (2011)

Ø  Galactic Adventures: First Kids in Space (2011)